Perhaps more daunting than the existing home sales statistics are pending home sales.
But BMW points out that the AutoData Corp. sales statistics for Mercedes-Benz included nearly 15, 000 Sprinter vans that are commonly used as commercial vehicles, like delivery vans, hotel or airport shuttles.
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While anecdotal evidence points to a boom in property sales, official statistics from January to August only record about 15, 000 transactions, while the number of property donations is twice that.
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The Office for National Statistics said sales volumes in July rose by 0.3%, and were up 2.8% from a year earlier.
The Office for National Statistics said that sales in December were 0.1% lower than November, but clothing and food sales particularly struggled.
While it is hard to get reliable statistics for tablet sales, a survey by YouGov seems to show that the Kindle Fire came from nowhere to challenge for the lead over the festive season.
The most notable statistics show that sales of a game are split 70-30 between the developer and Steam, whereas retail copies are 70-30 the other way, with developers getting the short end of the stick while retailers take a bigger chunk of the pie.
Based on the 3-month rolling average that WSTS (the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics) uses November sales were the highest month of the year and the first month of 2012 to come in higher than the same month of 2011.
The Office for National Statistics said that Olympic ticket sales had added 0.2 percentage points to the figures.
There are no current, definitive statistics on how many gun sales occur annually and what portion occurs without the checks.
This survey compounds recent figures from the Office for National Statistics which revealed that retail sales in December were 0.1% lower than November.
Although new home sales soared in April, the less volatile statistics are still uniformly grim.
Nevertheless, browser statistics tend to lead actual handset sales information release by as much as 1-2 months, so trying to interpret them is irresistible.
Recent statistics showing massive drops in laptop sales indicate consumers aren't replacing their computers as often as in the past, partly because they now rely a lot on smartphones and tablets.
Internet shopping is one of the retail sector's few growth areas, with the Office for National Statistics reporting on Thursday that online sales were 11% higher in October than a year earlier.
For most of the nine million Americans in sales (according to Bureau of Labor Department statistics), success now is much more complex than just sticking to the script and making a lot of calls.
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Compared with a year ago sales rose by 1.6%, the statistics office said.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales.
Are BMW counting deliveries to dealers, as the official statistics do, or are they counting true sales?
Mr Duggan also used government health statistics to demonstrate that states with higher magazine sales suffered higher rates of gun-related death.
Retail sales and factory investment also eased, the National Bureau of Statistics said.
It sounds like sales hype, but Thomas' comment is backed up by EPA statistics.
In the UK, only 8% of total sales in July were made online, according to the Office for National Statistics.
He bristled at statistics that show Apple's smartphones and tablets are losing sales ground to those powered by Google's Android software.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not yet published its figures for retail sales in November, but for some time it has been painting a more reassuring picture than the BRC (see chart).
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